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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] kconfig: update compression algorithm info
    On 2012-04-18 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > On 04/18/2012 09:40 AM, Lasse Collin wrote:
    > > - LZO should give the fastest boot from a hard disk (desktop
    > > systems where file size doesn't matter much).
    >
    > That really depends on the speed of your disk vs CPU.

    Yes. Maybe it isn't good to give so clear recommendation for LZO over
    gzip here.

    I think it is still safe to say that gzip and LZO are better than
    bzip2, XZ, or LZMA for compressing a kernel that will be loaded from a
    normal hard disk. It would be unusual if reading the disk was so slow
    that e.g. XZ would make the booting faster than gzip.

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    Lasse Collin | IRC: Larhzu @ IRCnet & Freenode


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